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Little Dada is a Toronto based collective that explores the role of technology in culture through whimsical works that cast a critical lens on techno-utopian narratives. Through installations, wearable technology, radical pedagogy and event organization, we infuse the spirit of dadaism into everyday life. Straddling the line between art and design, product and critique, we aim to highlight the ways in which technology is never neutral. Our work aims to elevate those who have been marginalized in narratives around technology, and explore possible futures where these voices are celebrated. Our work has been shown in festivals, galleries and publications across North America, Asia and Europe.

Yuliya is an Android developer at Jet.com, leading a team of 4 developers whose main focus is to build performant, scalable and cutting-edge Android projects. For the last few months Yuliya has been collaborating with Google to build the first multi-feature Instant Apps. Yuliya volunteers at C4Q - non-profit organization, which fosters the tech community in NY. She is actively involved in Access Code Program, which teaches coding to underrepresented minorities, women and immigrants.

Chris Matthieu was the co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, a revolutionary real-time IoT platform recently acquired by Citrix. (Chris is now the Director of IoT Engineering for Citrix.) Octoblu connects things, systems, people and clouds to a global mesh network allowing users to automate and control design flows, processes and sensor data, and analyze/react to real-time events and messages as well as big data trends and anomalies. Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was the founder of Nodester, an open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and the founder of Teleku, a communications-as-a-service cloud platform which was acquired by Voxeo. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisMatthieu

Not only does Peter have experience as a Flash Animator (creating animations on Newgrounds.com in 1999), and a knack for repairing vintage video game arcade machines, but he is a veteran Ultra Stack Developer, leading teams on mobile and web projects for Fortune 500 companies.

Peter has built large applications within the Banking, Retail and Insurance spaces and enjoys sharing his learnings with others.

Peter also enjoys biking moderately long distances.

Lisa Wray is currently consulting at the New York Times. She previously worked at Google on the Developer Relations team and at Genius (formerly Rap Genius), a Brooklyn-based startup, where she built their Android app from scratch. She currently lives in Seattle.